Need help with platform shooter

[smellslike]

I've got all the levels and the game ready, but im new at this! so i need some help, i need my player to start with a certain amount of ammo and then be able to pick up more ammo. Anybody got the answer?

[DavidN]

There are a lot of ways to do this - all of them involve setting up some sort of counter and using events to modify or check its contents. You could use a Counter object, an alterable value of your player, or a global value. I'll use a global value so that ammo is carried between frames, but the idea is the same for all of them.

Set up a global value in the Application Properties, name it "Ammo" or similar, and give it a value to start off with. Then, when the player fires, subtract 1 from this global value. You'll also have to add the condition "+ Ammo is above 0" to your shooting event, to prevent the player from firing if he doesn't have any ammo.

Pickups should destroy themselves when the player hits them and add an amount of ammo to this global value.